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mitch mcconnell's office said they were confused why the meeting was called. a white house official said this was so the president could make clear the need for a clean cr and raising the debt ceiling without any conditions attached to it. that is not exactly a recipe for deal making at this point. i think that this has at least as much potential to sort of make it less likely or the same amount of likelihood that a deal gets done as makes it more likely a deal gets done. it seems like we're headed for a relatively short meeting in which entrenched positions are rehashed. they both come out to the cameras and condemn the other one, which really doesn't, as you might guess, move us all that much closer to a solution here. >> i think you're right on that, chris. i think that's the mood. >> and john boehner's most recent public statement was his "usa today" op-ed, where he said, the fact is that washington democrats have slammed the door on reopening of the government by refusing to engage in bipartisan talks. they continue to reject our calls for fairness for al
mitch mcconnell's office said they were confused why the meeting was called. a white house official said this was so the president could make clear the need for a clean cr and raising the debt ceiling without any conditions attached to it. that is not exactly a recipe for deal making at this point. i think that this has at least as much potential to sort of make it less likely or the same amount of likelihood that a deal gets done as makes it more likely a deal gets done. it seems like we're...
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and so i would say keep an eye here on mitch mcconnell. he has in fact kept his powder sort of dry through all of this. at some point he's going to look at whether that potential senate majority is slipping out of his grasp. >> we will continue to follow it and i thank you, karen and joanne, for helping us work our way through this first day of the shutdown. we also continue to watch the floors of both the house and senate with, again, no deal in sight. so this morning the departments of housing, labor, energy, commerce and the epa are largely closed. national parks are closed not just in washington but across the country. there are more than 400 of them. by the way, today just happens to be yosemite's 123rd birthday. some less visited and privately owned sites and attractions are still open. arlington national cemetery, george washington's mt. vernon. also open, the post office and air traffic control towers. even though the smithsonian is closed, attractions like the 45.5 hope diamond are still closely guarded and there is also a mainten
and so i would say keep an eye here on mitch mcconnell. he has in fact kept his powder sort of dry through all of this. at some point he's going to look at whether that potential senate majority is slipping out of his grasp. >> we will continue to follow it and i thank you, karen and joanne, for helping us work our way through this first day of the shutdown. we also continue to watch the floors of both the house and senate with, again, no deal in sight. so this morning the departments of...
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. >> reporter: senate republican leader mitch mcconnell was caught on camera strategizing with his kentucky colleague, rand paul. >> reporter: polls actually show that republicans get more blame for the shutdown, but not by much. and the longer that this drags on, the public may care less about who started it and more about the fact that both sides don't appear to be engaging one another, scott, to fix it. >> pelley: nancy, thank you. we found the same thing in our poll, americans oppose the shutdown nearly three to one inspect our latest cbs news poll opponents outnumber proponents. we sent mark strassman and anna werner to talk to some folks whose congressmen support the shutdown. first mark in north carolina. >> reporter: conservatives in cashiers, north carolina, helped elect their senator to congress. >> we elected him. we sent him, and we expect him to do the job we elected him for jierpt realtor jane ebberts was one of a group of constituents we spoke to. they all support shutdown. aren't you worried that the longer that the shutdown goes on, your business could start to feel it? >>
. >> reporter: senate republican leader mitch mcconnell was caught on camera strategizing with his kentucky colleague, rand paul. >> reporter: polls actually show that republicans get more blame for the shutdown, but not by much. and the longer that this drags on, the public may care less about who started it and more about the fact that both sides don't appear to be engaging one another, scott, to fix it. >> pelley: nancy, thank you. we found the same thing in our poll,...
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and we saw great reporting in "the new york times" about back door meetings with mitch mcconnell just screaming at ted cruz. and so there's going to be pressure. you don't want to be on the wrong side of a 72% number in american politics, period. and they're doing that and they're doing it again in such a way that hurts their leverage in doing things like negotiating things about the debt ceiling or in tinkering around with reforming obama care. so i think that it's not just moderates, it's people who don't want to be on the other side of this kind of losing battle. >> and we saw all this activity yesterday in a bad way on capitol hill. i mean people were clearly rattled, amanda. it's only been a few weeks since the navy yard shooting, obviously the very deadly shooting. there was a tweet that's getting some attention from arkansas republican tim griffin and he seemed to imply some connection between the shots fired and the tension inside the capitol. stop the violent rhetoric, president obama, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, #disgusting. that was deleted a little bit later but it doe
and we saw great reporting in "the new york times" about back door meetings with mitch mcconnell just screaming at ted cruz. and so there's going to be pressure. you don't want to be on the wrong side of a 72% number in american politics, period. and they're doing that and they're doing it again in such a way that hurts their leverage in doing things like negotiating things about the debt ceiling or in tinkering around with reforming obama care. so i think that it's not just...
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you have mitch mcconnell saying, come on, cool off, let's get the government back to work. they know not just the optics are bad. i know there is a clip earlier, but they also recognize they can't have a dysfunctional government, especially when they're going into the 2014 election. what they don't want to do is repeat what happened under newt gingrich's leadership, where they shut down the government when they had the control of the majority and all of a sudden the democrats came in and about able to sweep. 9 problem with ted cruz, it's all about him and he recognizes it's an open vacuum to have a leader and he wants to be that leader. and unless the republican party figures out how to neutralize him, they're in big trouble. >> i mean, he's leading them, isn't he? >> he absolutely is. and the fact that -- boehner has really two choices. he -- i doubt he's going to be -- remain the speaker. he has two choices. either actually come up, dust himself off and say i may lose the speakership, but we're going to do the right thing, open the government, let's actually work on behal
you have mitch mcconnell saying, come on, cool off, let's get the government back to work. they know not just the optics are bad. i know there is a clip earlier, but they also recognize they can't have a dysfunctional government, especially when they're going into the 2014 election. what they don't want to do is repeat what happened under newt gingrich's leadership, where they shut down the government when they had the control of the majority and all of a sudden the democrats came in and about...
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here is mitch mcconnell and ran paul in that moment wednesday night. >> i think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for that but now we're willing to compromise on this, i think they can't -- i think i know we don't want to be here but we're going to win this, i think. >> the win word. for game playing, what would you call about griping for memorials to be closed when you voted to close them. >> how do you look at them and how do you deny them access? >> it's difficult. >> it should be difficult. >> it is difficult, i'm sorry, sir. >> park services should be ashamed of themselves. >> i'm not ashamed. >> you should be. >> people who aren't passing a budget. >> it doesn't cost people money to come here. >> this woman is doing her job just like me. i'm a 30-year federal veteran and i'm out of work. >> the reason you are -- >> no, because the government won't do its job and pass a budget. >> chewing out a park employee telling a person they ought to be ashamed. when we saw that we wanted to know more. for the past two days we invited that congressman from texas to come on
here is mitch mcconnell and ran paul in that moment wednesday night. >> i think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for that but now we're willing to compromise on this, i think they can't -- i think i know we don't want to be here but we're going to win this, i think. >> the win word. for game playing, what would you call about griping for memorials to be closed when you voted to close them. >> how do you look at them and how do you deny them access? >>...
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mcconnell. it really is the president and john boehner. they have to work this out. shu he just call in john boehner and say, mr. speaker, we've got to figure this out. there are so many people suffering right now. and if this debt ceiling isn't raised, it's going to be potentially another deep recession for the entire economy. >> the consequences are very great if the debt ceiling isn't raised. i predict it will be raised. the speaker has said he didn't want to see us go into default he is the president. he doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected. it's his second term shouldn't he just do what lbj might have done or ronald reagan might have done, take charge of this crisis. >> times are different. >> why? >> because all these outside factor hess i talked about. so you know, all i can tell you is the president has to be personally engaged all the time, 24 hours a day. he's the only one that speaks for all americans. it also requires the leadership of speaker boehner and the senate leaders
mcconnell. it really is the president and john boehner. they have to work this out. shu he just call in john boehner and say, mr. speaker, we've got to figure this out. there are so many people suffering right now. and if this debt ceiling isn't raised, it's going to be potentially another deep recession for the entire economy. >> the consequences are very great if the debt ceiling isn't raised. i predict it will be raised. the speaker has said he didn't want to see us go into default he...
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take a look at rand paul and mitch mcconnell. they were caught discussing this in an open mike situation. it's never good to have an open mike, robert gibbs. just pay close attention to that. look at this. >> do you have a second? >> i'm all wired up here. >> i just don't see an end. i just go over and over again, we're willing to compromise, we're willing to negotiate. i don't think they poll tested we won't negotiate. i think it's awful for them to say that over an over again. >> yeah, i do too. i just came back from a two-hour meeting with them and that was -- that was basically the same view privately as it was publicly. >> i think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for that but now we're willing to compromise on this, i think we're going to win -- i think -- i know we don't want to be here, but we're going to win this, i think. >> so that's an unfortunate private moment caught on tape between the two kentucky senators, but robert, what does that expose? >> again, i'm struck by the fact that they seem to be t
take a look at rand paul and mitch mcconnell. they were caught discussing this in an open mike situation. it's never good to have an open mike, robert gibbs. just pay close attention to that. look at this. >> do you have a second? >> i'm all wired up here. >> i just don't see an end. i just go over and over again, we're willing to compromise, we're willing to negotiate. i don't think they poll tested we won't negotiate. i think it's awful for them to say that over an over...
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did you hear mitch mcconnell yesterday? he's making the case going, spending is down the last two years, government spending down. what crisis? >> the debt ceiling is in october and it's not in july. >> what's the crisis? >> there's definitely a crisis with the republicans. >> they believe. >> and they control the chamber. it's important. you have to negotiate with the chamber. the fact of the matter, maybe obama should go travel. what they need is joe biden to cut the deal because harry reid can't hands it. >> what's the deal that gives john boehner cover? is it the medical device tax? is that what it is? >> what's the face-saving cover that gives boehner the opportunity to call a vote to both fund the government and also raise the debt ceiling? it seems like they're going -- >> i think that it's going to be pressure from within his own conference to put something clean on the floor. and -- >> so the interesting thing is these guys are not going home this weekend, which in a way may hurt their chances of getting a deal. if
did you hear mitch mcconnell yesterday? he's making the case going, spending is down the last two years, government spending down. what crisis? >> the debt ceiling is in october and it's not in july. >> what's the crisis? >> there's definitely a crisis with the republicans. >> they believe. >> and they control the chamber. it's important. you have to negotiate with the chamber. the fact of the matter, maybe obama should go travel. what they need is joe biden to cut...
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. >>> rand paul and mitch mcconnell caught in a canned ud exchange about how democrats haven't poll tested their public comments on the government shutdown. >> do you have a second? >> i'm all wired up here. >> i just did cnn. and i just go over and over again, we're willing to compromise, we're willing to negotiate. i think -- i don't think they poll tested we won't negotiate. i think it's awful for them to say that over and over again. >> yeah, i do too. and i just came back from that two-hour meeting with them, and that was -- that was basically the same view privately as it was publicly. >> i think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for, that but now we're willing to compromise on this, i think they can't -- we're going to -- i think -- well, i know we don't want to be here, but we're going to win this, i think. >> back room chatter. anyway, a lot of dugout noise there. republicans are on message while democrats haven't properly poll tested their position? senators, you're not supposed to be talking like that. you're supposed to be with us, not in that back room. we'll
. >>> rand paul and mitch mcconnell caught in a canned ud exchange about how democrats haven't poll tested their public comments on the government shutdown. >> do you have a second? >> i'm all wired up here. >> i just did cnn. and i just go over and over again, we're willing to compromise, we're willing to negotiate. i think -- i don't think they poll tested we won't negotiate. i think it's awful for them to say that over and over again. >> yeah, i do too. and i...
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mitch mcconnell had a different candidate in that kentucky senate race. his hand picked favorite and rand paul beat him. mitch mcconnell and rand paul are two peas that does not belong in the same pod. they've become partners in legislating on capitol hill. that relationship that has turned into a functional partnership is stunning. >> it is. interesting. fascinating all around. thanks, john, great to see you. >> thank you. >> have a good weekend. >> i can't get enough of it. >> that moment? >> i can't get enough of it. >> it's nice to have candor. >> metaphor comes to mind. i'm going to google it during the break. i know that's what it was. >>> coming up on "new day," the leader of the catholic church talking about the man who inspired him, that would be pope francis of assisi. >>> how much would you pay for a piece of twitter? tweet me what you think. your company is planning its big ipo and it wants to raise a billion dollars but is twitter worth that much? all the details. >> if you can control the nasty -- plastic waste to cover mt.ough rainier out o
mitch mcconnell had a different candidate in that kentucky senate race. his hand picked favorite and rand paul beat him. mitch mcconnell and rand paul are two peas that does not belong in the same pod. they've become partners in legislating on capitol hill. that relationship that has turned into a functional partnership is stunning. >> it is. interesting. fascinating all around. thanks, john, great to see you. >> thank you. >> have a good weekend. >> i can't get enough...
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republicans seem to have this new strategy saying we eavesdropped on paul rand and mitch mcconnell. they can sale we tried defund obamacare and then delay. didn't work. so now we want to negotiate and we can now accuse the democrats of not wanting to negotiate, is that an effective strategy in your opinion? >> look, the democrats realize that they're not sailing as free as the unnamed source in the "wall street journal" said. the fact is the president had this ridiculous meeting this week where he called the top leadership, house and senate, republicans and democrats, to the white house for an hour to say to them he wasn't going to negotiate you think he could have handed that in an eme-mail. then the president cancelled an important trip to asia because they think it would look terrible for him to be jet around at considerable expense on air force one. so they're feeling heat. you look at the polls, there are a lot of people blaming the democrats as well. they need a solution here. maybe not as much as the republicans but don't want to see this thing go on and on. >> right. we hope
republicans seem to have this new strategy saying we eavesdropped on paul rand and mitch mcconnell. they can sale we tried defund obamacare and then delay. didn't work. so now we want to negotiate and we can now accuse the democrats of not wanting to negotiate, is that an effective strategy in your opinion? >> look, the democrats realize that they're not sailing as free as the unnamed source in the "wall street journal" said. the fact is the president had this ridiculous meeting...
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mcconnell or anyone else, just the two of them, let's say they came up with an agreement and they worked it out. here's the >>> well, you know, i understand that, you know, that's the concern. obviously it's the concern that the speaker has to whether or not, you know, his republicans would back him up, but this is a point at which the interests of the country are a hell of a lot more important than the parties. this country is hurting right now. and i think what you need to do is to allow the house of both democrats and republicans to vote on this issue. i suspect you can get a majority of republicans, along with a majority of democrats, supporting a clean c.r., supporting a lifting of the debt ceiling, in torrid to allow room to negotiate. that's what you've got to do here. i think responsible people on both sides ought to have a chance to be able to express themselves. you know, you can't let the extremists control the party. we had extremes when i was in the congress, there were extremes always on both sides of the aisles. you've got to govern by people that will take a responsible a
mcconnell or anyone else, just the two of them, let's say they came up with an agreement and they worked it out. here's the >>> well, you know, i understand that, you know, that's the concern. obviously it's the concern that the speaker has to whether or not, you know, his republicans would back him up, but this is a point at which the interests of the country are a hell of a lot more important than the parties. this country is hurting right now. and i think what you need to do is to...
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now, you'll hear john boehner and mitch mcconnell and these other republicans say we don't want to default, but everybody knows, it's written about in all the papers, that their basic theory is okay, if the shutdown doesn't work, then we are going to try to get some extra concessions out of the president, we'll put like a long laundry list, all the things that we want that we can't get passed on our own and if we don't get it, we'll tell him we won't vote to pay the country's bills. we'll let the country default. i'm not just making this up. it's common knowledge. every reporter here knows it. and i want you to understand the consequences of this. as reckless as a government shutdown is, as many people as are being hurt by a government shutdown, an economic shutdown that results from default would be dramatically worse. in a government shutdown, social security checks still go out on time. in an economic shutdown, if we don't raise the debt ceiling, they don't go out on time. in a government shutdown, disability benefits still arrive on time. in an economic shutdown, they don't. in a gover
now, you'll hear john boehner and mitch mcconnell and these other republicans say we don't want to default, but everybody knows, it's written about in all the papers, that their basic theory is okay, if the shutdown doesn't work, then we are going to try to get some extra concessions out of the president, we'll put like a long laundry list, all the things that we want that we can't get passed on our own and if we don't get it, we'll tell him we won't vote to pay the country's bills. we'll let...
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it was tweeted out, the invitation to senator reid, nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnell and speaker boehner. so far the invitation has been accepted. speaker boehner sent out through a spokesperson we are pleased the president recognizes his re few sal to negotiate is indefensible. it is unclear why we would have the meeting if it is not a start to serious talks between the parties. let's hope they leave rhetoric at the door and speak in real, constructive terms instead of the blame game terms which seems to be every interview we do with anybody who works on the hill or in the white house. so speaking of that, all of this, if you don't already know, is about a six-week spending bill. this is about how to keep the government running for six weeks. not for a year. we haven't had a budget in years. this is just the spending bill. many people say a clean spend ing bill. however, the republicans attach to the bill scrapping obama care. then the ping-pong match began and ended how we are now. no one's budging. congressman bill pascrell, democrat from new jersey, joins us now and beside him scott
it was tweeted out, the invitation to senator reid, nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnell and speaker boehner. so far the invitation has been accepted. speaker boehner sent out through a spokesperson we are pleased the president recognizes his re few sal to negotiate is indefensible. it is unclear why we would have the meeting if it is not a start to serious talks between the parties. let's hope they leave rhetoric at the door and speak in real, constructive terms instead of the blame game terms which...
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is it mitch mcconnell who is embroiled in his own reelection campaign? where is the leadership? >> clearly in the senate leader mcconnell. in the house, speaker boehner. our guys are working together as much as they can to try and get a good result here. obviously want to have a strategy we can all rally behind. sometimes we have differences of opinions about what's the best way to proceed. but everybody here among republicans, at least, agree that this is a bad law that needs to be delayed and the american people agree with that. all we're seeing so far is higher premiums and fewer jobs. i think that's the result and net effect so far of obamacare and why there is so much interest i think among the american people in trying to get it delayed or repealed. >> steve: sure. i know you're not a gambling man, but exit question, what are the odds that things are going to shut down at midnight tonight? >> well, i suppose you would have to 50/50. i hope it could be avoided. we'll do everything we can to avoid that. obviously as i said before, republicans here on capitol hill have been w
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. >> that was mitch mcconnell, republican senator from kentucky. we're going to play you some sound from the president in a minute. let's go to washington. let me talk to congressman jason smith, a republican from missouri. congressman, welcome. thank you for taking the time. you know, i want to just begin with the news. i know you were part of this closed door meeting with house republicans here. we're learning that you all are considering now piecemeal bills, piecemeal votes to fund the government. can you give me sort of the back story? why this strategy? >> you know, brooke, thanks for having me on. first and foremost, right now it is the urgency of the house republicans to open government up. we're trying every aspect we can to get the house -- the senate democrats and the president to actually just work with us and negotiate. we have sent four different proposals over to the senate, and they continue to table the motion. the last one last night and the early morning hours, we asked to go to conference just to get to the middle to actually neg
. >> that was mitch mcconnell, republican senator from kentucky. we're going to play you some sound from the president in a minute. let's go to washington. let me talk to congressman jason smith, a republican from missouri. congressman, welcome. thank you for taking the time. you know, i want to just begin with the news. i know you were part of this closed door meeting with house republicans here. we're learning that you all are considering now piecemeal bills, piecemeal votes to fund the...
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and you have two senators, rand paul and mitch mcconnell, both republicans. they're not here, they're in washington trying to get the government restarted hopefully. you get an idea of a state divided certainly. they were dealing with some of the same things. they had about 3,000 completed applications yesterday and they suffered from some of the same glitches. take a look. the doors flung open on the new marketplace where millions of americans should be able to sign up for health insurance. within minutes, thud. the site started going down. overwhelmed they say by heavy traffic. new york state, internal service error. washington state, same thing. the federal website is handling signups for 36 states, including pennsylvania. where 25-year-old lauren hartley tried to sign up. >> and then on the third page, it asks for security questions but the page just wasn't populated. there's some sort of technical glitch and it wasn't working. >> reporter: by midday, both the president and his critics were weighing in. >> like every new law, every new product rollout, th
and you have two senators, rand paul and mitch mcconnell, both republicans. they're not here, they're in washington trying to get the government restarted hopefully. you get an idea of a state divided certainly. they were dealing with some of the same things. they had about 3,000 completed applications yesterday and they suffered from some of the same glitches. take a look. the doors flung open on the new marketplace where millions of americans should be able to sign up for health insurance....
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my counterpart, mitch mcconnell, said at the beginning of the presidency of barak obama that he had one goal, and is to make sure he wasn't elected. i say this seriously, i hope that that's based on substance. not the fact that he's not african-american. the word is out that mitt romney hasn't paid taxes for ten years. let him prove that they has paid taxes because he hasn't. men don't have jobs. women don't have jobs either, but women aren't abusive most of the time. men, when they're out of work, they tend to become abusive. >> brian: when he started talking, the room was full. little by little, they're like, i don't want to be in this shot. you have empty chairs behind him. >> steve: but women aren't abusive most of the time. >> brian: how about this, this man's father is a wonderful human being. i think guy is a loser. remember, everybody knows the war is lost. >> steve: didn't harry reid also say that mitt romney killed a guy's wife? >> brian: somebody did. >> elisabeth: probably. >> steve: maybe it was an ad. >> elisabeth: he continues to insist it's the republicans that are block
my counterpart, mitch mcconnell, said at the beginning of the presidency of barak obama that he had one goal, and is to make sure he wasn't elected. i say this seriously, i hope that that's based on substance. not the fact that he's not african-american. the word is out that mitt romney hasn't paid taxes for ten years. let him prove that they has paid taxes because he hasn't. men don't have jobs. women don't have jobs either, but women aren't abusive most of the time. men, when they're out of...
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also, senator mitch mcconnell will be there to offer perspective. but i hope the government doesn't shut down because for that to happen the republicans will be issuing a stay of execution for the democrats in the 2014 election. nothing could be dumber for the republicans to do than to give the democrats that kind of weapon going into the election cycle, plus the fact that it hurts a lot of people that don't have anything to do with all the squabbling in washington. and it's just not the right way to govern. >> the people you're talking about are the troops, right? the pentagon saying 1.4 member millions of the military won't get paid. even death benefits to the family, those killed in the line of duty, they would be delayed to the families. >> they will eventually get the money, but eventually doesn't pay the bills this week. it doesn't put groceries on the table today. it doesn't make the rent payment on time. and i think sometimes we forget, not everybody's making as much money as the members of congress. maybe they can afford to go without their
also, senator mitch mcconnell will be there to offer perspective. but i hope the government doesn't shut down because for that to happen the republicans will be issuing a stay of execution for the democrats in the 2014 election. nothing could be dumber for the republicans to do than to give the democrats that kind of weapon going into the election cycle, plus the fact that it hurts a lot of people that don't have anything to do with all the squabbling in washington. and it's just not the right...